Kraft Sports Productions, the production company for the New England Patriots and other Kraft family businesses, has deployed a new digital post-production workflow to produce programs including “Patriots: All Access,” a weekly series broadcast on ABC-affiliate WCVB-TV in Boston.

The workflow centers on the Avid Unity MediaNetwork shared-storage system and connects an Avid AirSpeed system for ingesting media with Avid Xpress Pro and Avid Media Composer Adrenaline systems for video editing and finishing.

Kraft uses thousands of hours of footage from some of the team’s most exciting games to produce these programs that highlight the teamwork behind the New England Patriots organization. The new digital production workflow cuts production cycles and allows producers to invest more creative time on the shows.

With footage and clips stored on the Avid Unity MediaNetwork system, producers take advantage of a shared-media environment, allowing multiple editors in different locations to work simultaneously in real-time. This new environment eliminates the need to shuttle hundreds of tapes back and forth to users, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing the time it takes to complete projects.

Kraft Sports Productions--production company for New England Patriots--has tapped Avid digital post workflow for football programming. The new digital environment will be used to create "Patriots: All Access," a weekly series broadcast on ABC-affiliate WCVB-TV. The Avid Unity MediaNetwork shared-storage system is

TV GLOBO strategically decided to deploy a file-based sports production system to provide sports content for a multimedia environment that includes terrestrial TV, pay TV and new media (Internet and mobile).

America's Most Wanted, the long-running television program that gives viewers a chance to help nab some of the country's most notorious criminals, is going digital. It recently adopted an all-digital workflow that is saving money and creating tremendous efficiencies for its producers. Switching from Beta SP acquisition and analog online, the show now acquires material digitally with Panasonic's DVCPRO 50 cameras, offlines and onlines with Avid Media Composers and a Symphony, and provides shared storage with an Avid Unity Media. In addition, producers move footage between remote locations with Telestream ClipMail Pros, and stay in touch with each other via Research In Motion's BlackBerry servers.

America's Most Wanted, the long-running television program that gives viewers a chance to help nab some of the country's most notorious criminals, is going digital. It recently adopted an all-digital workflow that is saving money and creating tremendous efficiencies for its producers. Switching from Beta SP acquisition and analog online, the show now acquires material digitally with Panasonic's DVCPRO 50 cameras, offlines and onlines with Avid Media Composers and a Symphony, and provides shared storage with an Avid Unity Media. In addition, producers move footage between remote locations with Telestream ClipMail Pros, and stay in touch with each other via Research In Motion's BlackBerry servers.

Today, few post-production facilities are investing in video infrastructures. Instead, many facilities are giving computer workstations an increasing role in post-production, and many are also improving their IT networks.